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From: phil@wubios.wustl.edu (J. Philip Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Requesting info on Mountain backup tape
Keywords: tape backup
Message-ID: <438@wubios.wustl.edu>
Date: 31 Mar 89 15:20:03 GMT
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Reply-To: phil@wubios.UUCP (J. Philip Miller)
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In article <190@dms3b1.UUCP> dave@dms3b1.UUCP (Dave Hanna) writes:
>I'm planning purchase of a tape backup system for my 386 clone.
>The unit that looks like the best fit at the best price is
>the Mountain 40 Mbyte internal unit.  However, I know nothing
>about it.  
>
we have several on Compaq 386 & PS/2's.  Appear to work well.  Only things
that I do not like are:

1) it can take up to 40 minutes to Format a tape (Saw in PC Weak that they
have a new controller that can format as it writes - that would be more
convenient).

2) I would like, on occasion to be able to write to it as a DOS device, rather
than just doing a disk backup.  I am unaware of any DOS device driver to make
this possible.

the tapes appear to be interchangeble between systems and the software is
reasonable for what it does

-phil
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